The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section II - The General World
Picture

You will now see a little of the occult objective which lay
behind the words which I asked you all to repeat in connection with the Great Invocation:

We know, O Lord of Life and Love,
about the need;
Touch our hearts anew with love,
that we too may love and give.

It is this thought of the free circulation of energy between the three world centers
which motivates this mantric sentence. A study of this will show you how the implication
and significance of apparently simple words may be far deeper and far more wide-reaching
in effect than you have been able to conceive. A recognition of this and a creative
impassioned use of the imagination may serve to add greater potency to your thought and to
your personal will-to-good as you use the Great Invocation and its subsidiary mantram. The
keynote of the first aspect is Sacrifice, and of the second, Love. The words therefore
"that we too may love and give" can produce a contact between the two.

A clue also to the significance of pain and of suffering will gradually emerge in the
world consciousness as study is made of the above statements. Suffering is the most
effective and most rapid way of evoking world understanding and of burning away the
barriers which human beings have set up to the expression of the will-to-good. One of the
most beneficent results of the inflow of the Shamballa force through [155] the focused
demand of the aspirants and world disciples will be the intelligent recognition of the
uses of pain and suffering. It is this truth - distorted and selfishly misapplied and
interpreted - which has led certain types of people and certain types of governing bodies
among the nations to take the position that the greater the suffering inflicted (as, for
instance, in war time) and the greater the process of terrorism, the quicker the end which
is desirable and right; they hold often that the more dire the effects of planned
conditions, the more rapidly will the correct consummation be achieved. It is not,
however, the duty or right of man to turn first ray force to selfish ends or material
objectives; responsibility cannot be veiled behind specious and distorted half truths and
evil cannot be done in order that good may come. What is applied by the Lord of the World
in Shamballa under the motivation of love, wisdom and selflessness with a sure touch and a
judgment as to times and seasons cannot be so used by those motivated by personality
objectives, either on an individual or a personality scale (for nations as well as
individuals have personalities). Ponder on this and seek enlightenment from the soul.

3. When the
Great Invocation is thus rightly used and the world centers are consequently consciously
interrelated, then certain extra-planetary Energies can be called in by the Ruler of
Shamballa to aid in the readjustments required for the New Age and its coming
civilization. These Forces - spiritual and potent in nature - exist in two categories:
solar Forces which are interplanetary and cosmic Forces which enter into our solar system
via Jupiter as the transmitter of divine energies from Virgo and Aquarius which Jupiter esoterically
governs. Virgo is esoterically the mother of the Christ child and is, therefore, the
emanator of energies which nourish and aid the growth of the Christ consciousness;
Aquarius is the coming expression of the group consciousness which is the first and
immediate revelation of the ever present Christ consciousness on a large scale in
humanity. Jupiter also, exoterically and from the angle of orthodox [156] astrology, rules
Sagittarius, the sign of discipleship, and also Pisces, the sign of the world saviors. The
implications will, therefore, be obvious to real students.

In
considering these great Energies, there is little you can do beyond accepting - if you
care to do so - my statements anent them, regarding them as interesting and simply
explanatory hypotheses. There is little that you can do (or I either) to arrive at first
hand knowledge of the facts along this line. Few even of the Members of the Hierarchy are
conscious of the impact of force from extra-solar centers or reservoirs of spiritual
force. Only the group of Contemplatives in the Hierarchy which are given the exoteric name
of Nirmanakayas are responsive to Their influence in any conscious manner and then only
when that influence has been stepped down by certain powerful agencies in Shamballa. It is
not necessary for me or for you to say more anent Them though I shall touch upon Them
again later in this article.